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Revelation 2:12-17

2 Corinthians 5

Church in Smyrna - Revelation 2 - Tribulation from others that claim Christ

2 Corinthians 3

2 Corinthians 4-5

Paul describes the suffering he and his companions endured as they lived and preached the gospel of Christ. He uses words like “tribulation, trouble, afflictions, burdened, sorrow, anguish” and “many tears.”
Paul’s purpose in these reports in Second Corinthians is not to create gloom. Scattered throughout his report of suffering there are intense statements affirming the comfort of faith. So the apostle objectively reports the suffering they endured as ambassadors of Christ, but not to promote despair; rather, to stress the endurance possible by faith.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:13-15. WE BELIEVE, AND THEREFORE WE SPEAK
“But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, ‘I believed, and therefore I spoke.’ We also believe, and therefore also we speak” (4:13). Paul quotes from Psalm 116:10, which says, “I believed, therefore I said, ‘I was greatly afflicted.'”
Paul identifies with the Psalmist, who said that God heard his cries for mercy. While Paul’s allusion to Psalm 116 might seem obscure to us, it would have been clear to Jewish Christians who had been raised with the Hebrew Bible. Paul changes the Psalmist’s “I believed, therefore I said, ‘I was greatly afflicted” to “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” Just as the Psalmist’s faith enabled him to speak, so also Paul’s faith enables him to speak–and to defend himself against his opponents.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 Awaiting The New Body
Paul said the apostles were men condemned to death. So the question for those men was: How do you go through something that is litteraly described as death? 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 explains how we can face death today.
In Verse 1 Paul says "we know!", we don't have to guess or speculate... By walking by faith not by sight we know that when this earthly body (or tent) is destroyed, that there is another body: "a building from God, a house in the heavens.
A new train of imagery begins to rise in his mind: linked, perhaps, to that of the preceding chapter by the idea of the tabernacle; in part, perhaps, suggested by his own occupation as a tentmaker. His daily work was to him a parable, and as his hands were making the temporary shelter for those who were travellers on earth, he thought of the house "not made with hands," eternal in the heavens.

Be a Light

The Lord is in His Holy Temple

1 & 2 Kings

Revelation

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Colossians 2

Colossians 1, The Exaltation of Christ, "far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. Ephesians 1:21"

3 John

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The Book of Philemon: A slave named Onesimus had escaped from his owner, Philemon, and had run away from Colossae to Rome in the hope that he could disappear into that populous, urban environment. He instead gets together with Paul.

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Book of Jude

Matthew 5:3-11

Proof of Young Earth

The Science of the Bible

Genesis, Noah, The Flood, and Mammoths. Water Baptism, Ship at sea, and saving souls.

Book of Malachi

Psalms 8

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1 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8

Exodus 12:13-14

Genesis 2:20-24, Eve and Adam, Mother's Day

ROMANS 8:23-26, One Hope

Earth Day, Romans 1:18

Sunday April 18th

4 Examples of "Bold"

Jesse Moser from the SW School of Biblical Studies in Austin was our guest speaker today. The examples of bold were Moses Leadership, the zeal of Phinehas, Jesus preaching in synagogues, and the Apostles taking the word abroad.

Ezekiel 3:3

Moses & Jesus

1Samuel 17 David and Goliath